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I live in London, maybe this is just a UK thing? or is C++ dead in the startup world.
If you have a strong engineering background especially in C++, you'll be just fine.
* low-level infrastructure like databases
* desktop applications
* some embedded work
The vast majority of startups isn't doing anything like that, then you have to subtract those that do it using other technologies and there is not much left. And in many cases it's going to be part of a role, not a pure C++ position.
Once they grow more and more companies go into low-level things, but for your typical young start-up it's a waste of resources if it isn't part of the core product.
C++ is dead there (and in many other places). The closest thing is Golang and Swift (and perhaps Rust). That doesn't mean there are no C++ jobs, but you'd need to look for them elsewhere. Why is that surprising?
I even found a Haskell shop there.
the hottest 3 areas in tech, vr, deep learning/ai and self-driving cars, need c++ intensively.
c++ programmers are at the tip of the programmer pyramid.
most operating systems, deep learning frameworks, computer graphics systems are in c++. the hottest 3 areas in tech, vr, deep learning/ai and self-driving cars, need c++ intensively. c++ programmers are at the tip of the programmer pyramid.
I've mostly done Python in past, and C++ long ago, but at current job I've also been writing Java, Javascript, Ruby and Kotlin.